26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like
as the sand of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round
about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was
yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high
God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
stedfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he
his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that
passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 ¶ How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and
grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he
delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to
this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.